Mozilla announced Monday that it appointed Chris Beard, a longtime company insider, to serve as interim CEO. The appointment comes a week and a half after Brendan Eich stepped down as CEO amid widespread criticism of a donation he made in 2008 to Pro...

Count OkCupid among those celebrating the resignation of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich on Thursday. The dating site protested Mozilla on Monday by discouraging users to visit its site via Firefox, in an attempt to bring awareness to Eich's 2008 political ...

Brendan Eich has stepped down as CEO of Mozilla, a company he cofounded, following significant criticism for his earlier support of a legal measure banning gay marriage. "Brendan Eich has chosen to step down from his role as CEO," Mitchell Baker, exe...

UPDATE, Wednesday April 2, 8:24 p.m. ET -- OkCupid is no longer steering users away from Mozilla's Firefox browser. Users who attempted to visit OkCupid on Firefox Wednesday were able to get to the site without the pop-up that was first noticed on Mo...

BARCELONA, Spain -- Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox mobile operating system, has announced a major new partnership with Spreadtrum, a Chinese chip set manufacturer, in a move that promises to usher in the era of ultra-affordable smartpho...

New Firefox users will soon be seeing advertisements when they open a new tab. Non-profit software group Mozilla announced in that it is rolling out "Directory Tiles," a program that will place various types of content in tiles on the tabs opened by ...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you updated on what's happening in the digital world. According to a new report by The Wall Street Journal, Nokia will be launching an Android smartphone sometime this mo...

Mozilla will be releasing a Firefox launcher for Android in the coming weeks. The announcement was made at the InContext conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. In order to bring the Firefox launcher to Android, Mozilla is partnering with the Israe...

Mozilla has announced it will soon start launching Firefox OS-based devices in new markets around the world. Mozilla launched the first Firefox OS smartphones -- the ZTE Open and Alcatel One Touch Fire -- in July 2013. These devices are available fro...

Mozilla’s Firefox OS is headed to a smartphone near you. The first two phones running the Firefox OS -- the ZTE Open and Alcatel One Touch Fire -- were officially announced Monday morning, with the ZTE Open expected to hit store shelves in Spain on T...

Mozilla announced the first two smartphones based on its operating system, Firefox OS on Monday: the ZTE Open and Alcatel One Touch Fire. The two devices will soon be available through Telefonica and Deutsche Telekom. Telefonica announced that the ZT...

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